Charles Sprague Ballou

born: 12 Sep 1908, Hetland,Kingsbury Co.,South Dakota
died: 29 Dec 1988, Arlington,Kingsbury Co.,South Dakota
bur.: 3 Jan 1989, Hetland,Kingsbury Co.,South Dakota, at Hetland Cemetery
occu: farmer and bakery worker
spouse: Myrtle Hendretta MYDLAND
marr: 22 Aug 1936, Menno,SD
born: 19 Jun 1909, Arlington,Kingsbury Co.,South Dakota
died: 16 Nov 1965, Minneapolis,Minnesota
bur.: south of Hetland,Kingsbury Co.,South Dakota, at Lake Whitewood Lutheran Cemetery
Children:
Charles Lyman Ballou
Caron Ties Ballou
William Eugene Ballou
Richard Dean Ballou
Helen Myrcene Ballou
Verlyn Jane Ballou
Vernon Gene Ballou
spouse: Violet May BLACKSMITH
marr: Abt 1960, Rapid City,SD
born: Abt 1933

Pedigree Chart

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  |------Lyman Elias BALLOU (1863, New York - 1935, South Dakota)
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Charles Sprague BALLOU (1908, South Dakota - 1988, South Dakota)
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  |        |---------Charles Samuel SPRAGUE (1838, Ohio - 1922, South Dakota)
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  |        |
  |------Ada Lemora SPRAGUE (1867, Iowa - 1959, South Dakota)
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           |          |--------Tunstal Quarles MATTHEWS (1807, Kentucky - 1878, Nebraska)
           |          |
           |---------Lucinda MATTHEWS (1844, Indiana - 1918, South Dakota)
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                      |--------Harriet STONE (1808, New York - 1895, South Dakota)
Charlie graduated from Hetland, SD, High School in 1928 and played on the basketball team. He attended the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

Charlie farmed west of Hetland, SD, and continued farming after buying a pool hall in Arlington, SD.

The family moved to Rapid City, SD in 1955. Sometime after 1956, he was divorced from his wife Myrtle. In June, 1960, Charlie married Violet May Blacksmith, 27, and they lived in Rapid City. He worked for the Metz Bakery in Rapid City for 20 years, when he retired.

Charlie was in the 1972 flood in Rapid City caused by the bursting of the Canyon Lake Dam. His little house was carried in the flood as he stood on a doorknob and held onto a shelf above the door to keep his head out of water. The house was caught on a Rail Road trestle and a boat came by and rescued him. He lost all of his possessions in that flood.

In 1975 he moved to live with his son Vernon in Minneapolis, and then in 1979 went to the Arlington Care Center in Arlington, SD. He lived there until his death. Charlie died of hypostatic pneumonia. He had a carcinoma of the prostate with metastasis to the urinary bladder.

In the 1950 and 1952 Kingsbury Co. Farm Directories, Chas. S. Ballou is listed with a Lake Preston address, farming in Section 36, Twp 111, Range 54.

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